Oregon Health News Edition June 2009

By Oregon Health News staff

SALEM—Democrats passed a bill out of committee in late May that will increase by fivefold the tax on the state’s largest hospitals and start a new tax on insurance companies. Republicans, meanwhile, warned that the new taxes only pour more money into a broken system that is not sustainable.

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HB 2009C
Budget blues
Medical home pilot
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